Vegebot: U.K. Robot Uses Machine Learning to Harvest Lettuce
The ‘Vegebot’ is a vegetable-picking robot that uses machine learning to identify and harvest a commonplace, but challenging, agricultural crop, according to an article at FreshPlaza. The bot was developed by a team at the University of Cambridge, was initially trained to recognise and harvest iceberg lettuce in a lab setting. It has now been successfully tested in a variety of field conditions in cooperation with G’s Growers, a local fruit and vegetable co-operative.
Although the prototype is nowhere near as fast or efficient as a human worker, it demonstrates how the use of robotics in agriculture might be expanded, even for crops like iceberg lettuce which are particularly challenging to harvest mechanically. The results are published in The Journal of Field Robotics.
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